Alan Ingalls

On Being a Pro Again

A while back I wrote about being a pro. I found a remarkable statement with the same sentiment this weekend in the USA Weekend insert in our local paper (11/4-6/2011, p. 20). Yo-Yo Ma, the world-renowned cellist, said of practice: “Sometimes the hour feels like 3 minutes. Other times it could feel like 20 hours. Its about turning that little switch on inside that goes from ‘I have to do it’ to ‘I want to do it.” That’s the essence of learning anything.”